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the physical plane happenings are incidental and of no permanent lasting
power.

The
physical plane events and precipitations are carried forward and
made possible through focal points of energy who are the world dictators,
the world statesmen, and the outstanding human beings in all lands
as well as by groups which are actively working in every country
for their own ends or  as is more often the case  under
the influence of some group ideal or wisdom plus personal ambition,
personal will-to-power and personal aggrandizement. We call these
people dictators, demagogues, inspired leaders, or just and wise
people, according to our peculiar ideology, tradition, attitudes
to our fellow humans and our particular political, economic and
religious training. But all these leaders are simply human beings
and like other people  idealistic, mistaken,
lovers of their country, egoists, impressionable, foolish, cunning,
powerful, focused on some goal or ambition, with clear vision and
at the same time myopic reactions, cruel or wise as the case may
be  but,
in the last analysis, highly developed personalities. They are being
used to engineer great and needed changes and to alter the face
of civilization. The wrong methods employed and the evil things
done are the fault of humanity as a whole, and of the habits of
thought which have made mankind selfish and cruel and cause this
great and universal spirit of the will-to-change to manifest so
powerfully and cruelly.

Blame
not the personalities involved or the people who produce these events
before which we stand today bewildered and appalled. They are only
the product of the past and the victims of the present. At the same
time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of the new order
and the initiators of the new civilisation; they are the destroyers
of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along the
Lighted Way. They are the embodiment of the personality of humanity.
Blame yourselves, therefore, for what is today transpiring and seek
not to evade responsibility by placing it upon the shoulders of
spectacular people or any statesperson, dictator or upon any group.
Look not to one person or to one group of persons and accuse them
of causing the present world condition. Look not also to any one
person or group to bring liberation or to find a solution of the
world problem. That is for humanity itself to do. Humanity must
take action and will do so, when the right time comes. To recognise
joint responsibility, joint mistakes, ancient errors of judgment,
wrong attitudes and habits of thought, world-wide selfish purpose
and intent, a universal spirit of aggression which, down the ages,
has influenced first one nation and then another, the tendency last
century to crystallise and become static, the reactionary forces
on every hand  these are
universal qualities and no nation and no race is free of guilt or has
entirely clean hands. Also, no one national group is purely wrong
and evil or purely good and unselfish. There are mixed motives everywhere.
Nationalism, aggression, selfishness and cruelty in all countries
face a desire for world understanding, peaceful relations, and an
unselfish and beneficent spirit also in all countries. The Forces
of Light find their adherents and their workers in every country
though some are subjected to greater handicaps in expression than
others. So also do the Forces of Materialism. And in between these
two great groups stand the masses  waiting
for the emergence of fresh opportunity and new revelations.

It
is the universality of these conditions and the clear-cut issues that
have made this period one of planetary opportunity and planetary initiation.
Initiation is essentially a moving out from under ancient controls into
the control of more spiritual and increasingly higher values. Initiation
is an expansion of consciousness which leads to a growing recognition
of the inner realities. It is equally the recognition of a renewed sense
of the need for change and the wise engineering of these needed changes
so that real progress can be made; the consciousness is expanded and
becomes more generously and divinely inclusive and there is a fresh
and more potent control by the soul as it assumes increasingly the direction
of the life of the individual, of a nation and of the world.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a
lot.
When you realize everything springs only from yourself, you will
learn both peace and joy.- His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama